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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
Wise Mercantile rIax,ns.

A thoroughly honest clerk can always
command a better salary than one Of
equivocal habits.
He who has traded out his neighbor s.
good opinion is pretty sure to die a poor
man, however high the price for which
he sold it.
When business is attended with mi
nuteness of detail, strict punctuality, il
runs evenly, without jar OF friction, and
insures success.
1t is statistical truth that no single cause
leads TO more disasters than the use OF
liquors, not necessarily through drunken
ness, but the enfeebling of the Judgment.
In dress, be neat and unobtrusive. The
perfection of dress is to be SO perfectly in
keeping with your occupation that the
attention of an observer is not directed to
it at all.
Vainly shall man hope to live and
thrive by buying and selling after his
neighbors ana customers have learned by
sad experience that his word il not reli-
able, that his representations of the cost
or quality of his wares are not to bo
trusted.
Fuming and fretting in and around n
store, finding fault with clerks and eni-
ployes, denotes lack Of order and busi
ness tact, and exposes the merchant t.
ridicule and unpleasant comments from
those from whom he should have respect
and confidence, New York Mail and
Express
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

Three Omaha Indians, one of whom is a
returned student, have clubbed together and
bought seeding machine One OF these men
was able by its use to put in forty acres of
wheat in one day. The three Indians have
planted on their farms over 100 acres of
wheat. They are now renting out the ma
chine to the white farmers in their neighbor.
hood at ten cents per acre planted. Work
and thrift bring good fellowship everywhere.
Carlisle Pa.) Indian School STAR
There was born in Goshen, on Nlarcn 20.
l7SS triplet of girls, who made one of tbs
most remarkable records known. 9hey were
Sibyl, Sarah and Susan Hurlburt, children
of Gideon and Anna Beach Hmlburt. Fol
the great period of eighty-seven years this
triplet remained unbrnken, Sibyi dying first
at that age, in June, 1875. Her welded name
was Luddington. In October of the next
year Susan (Irs. GrennelD died at the age of
SS. Sarah lived to the age of 95, dying on
Jan. IL, 1888. Her welded name was Busb-
nell, These sisters looked SO mnch alike
particularly Mrs. Grennell and Mrs. Bush
nell-that up to Is or Sc years of age it was
difficult for the most intimate friends to ted
them apart sven they could mistake one an.
other among themselves Torrinstop
Comm Register
steam Power aud Electric Energy.
An intimate friend and business asso-
ciate OF MIR. Edison, in conversation
with a reporter of electrical tendencies,
said:
at would be premature just at present
to make public mention of what is now
being done by Mr.. Edison in the line of
original investigation. There is much
TO be learned yet in the field of electric
ity, both as to means of production and
methods of utilization. So far as the
conversion of steam power into electric
energy is concerned there is little left to
be desired, as our present dynamos give
an efficiency of 50 per cent. out of a pos
sible 100--and when the real is within
per cent of the ideal there is not much
to be gained in that direction. Could
makers of steam generators and engines
approach anywhere near such perfection
in the construction of apparatus for con
verting heat into power the mechanical
millennium would be at hand. New
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

Decidedly the time has come when the
torpedo boats must do something, no
matter what, to justify their existence.
For any powers they have of late shown
themselves to be possessed of they are
only to be spoken Of along with the gal
liant Bugaboo, and ''a royal salute of
bricks would be a fit recognition of
their imaginary merits. At Toulaa re-
Gently the torpedo boats failed so badly
that even their great patron, Admiral
L LAube, threw them over; at the recent
maneuvers they disabled themselves one
after another, like crazy wasps, and yes
terday's attack upon the fleet in the So
lent seems to have been the worst fiasco
of all. Capt. Long, we are told, chan
died his fotilla of twenty boats in a most
mastery and scientific Manner so the
fault must be in the boats themselves.
Yet, says another correspondent, lit
seemed to all who watched the fight
closely that very few torpedo boats could
have passed the outposts so skillfully
posted by Lieut.. Slade, and if any had
got through they would inevitably have
been sunk by fire from the ironclads.' -
And besides those in the action few ran
aground for variety's sake, although, saws
a sarcastic witness, without suffering
any material injury beyond theoretical
destruction As we said before, tor
pedo boat must blow up something Just
to show that she can do it with all the
chances in her favor.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
An Absurd Bird.

Kiwi-kiwi is the creatures real name,
but scientific men. call it apteryx, which
is a Greek word meaning wingless, be-
cause, though bird, it has no wings. 1t
not only has no wings, but it has no tail
not even SO much as an apology for
one. And as il that were not enough,
it has no feathers worthy Of the name.
It's quiIls are covered with soft down for
about one-third Of their length, and then
are fringed with hairlike webs out to the
ends, which are sharply pointed. 1t is
only as large as a common domestic fowl.
but it has much stronger and stouter legs
and bigger feet,
When it sleeps in the daytime-for
naturally it is odI enough to choose the
wrong time for sleepinG-it rests its long
bill on the ground, and SO makes itself
look like a strange sort of three legged
stool. GIost other birds use their beaks
Or their wings or their spurs to fight with,
but it would be foolish to expect any
such natural proceeding from the kiwi;
and, in fact, It's plan Of fighting is to
kick. It is very fond of earth worms,
and one of its ways Of procuring them is
worthy OF so odd bird. 1t thumps the
earth with its big feet and if there are
any worms in the vicinity, up they come
TO discover what is the matter.
It is o cousin TO the ostrich, and though
its plUmage has no such value for US as
its large relatives has, it is very highly
valued by the natives of New Zealand.
The kiwi has a very tough skin, which,
when it is properly dressed, makes good
Ieather-St. Nicholas.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
LITTLE OLD FASHIONED.

As prim as lily in some quiet nook
She sits by herself, with her slate or her book,
And hears with an air patronizingly gay
The voices of other sweet children at play
Demurely she sighs, by which you infer
That such romping and merriment are not for
her;
But some ones heart whispers that she is her
pearl,
Her little home body, her old fashioned girl
She plays tea alone by a sofa or chair,
Rocks baby to sleep with a matronly air.
Then sews by the cradle. With glasses on, she
pocket edition of granny would be
When mother looks careworn, ah. quickly she
sees,
And knows how few soothing love words will
please,
Then in that dear lap lays each soft shining CURL
She's mothers own comfort, her old fashioned
girl.
When twilight has melowed the loud playthne
din,
She quietly asks. Are the children all in!"
Or, watching the step, when a footstep comes
near,
She whispers, That's father; Tn so glad he's
here"
The youngest of shoulders, the Oldest of headsl
Does any one know wee darling who sheds
4 joy and a sunshine, mid life's tireess whirl,
Like mothers home body, her Old fashioned girly
-Harper's Young People.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

The ''falling exercise became not SO
common, and the Jerks" succeeded.
These if possible, were harder to account
for than the former, and it is impossible
for me to fully describe them. The first
l saw affected with them were very
pious, exemplary persons. Their heads
would jerk back suddenly, frequently
causing them to give CRY or make some
other involuntary noise. After this nearly
all classes became subject to them. The
intelligent and the ignorant. the strong,
athletic man and the weak, effeminate
persons were handled alike by them.
Sometimes the head would fly every way
SO quickly that the features could not be
recognized, have seen their heads fly
backward and forward SO quickly that
the hair of females would be male to
crack like carriage whip. Some wicked
persons have taken clerks" while rili-
culing them, and been powerfully opcr-
ated on; others have taken them while
trying to mimic them and had the fit in
good earnest. One thing that appear ed
almost, if not entirely, miraculous, was
that among the hundreds ! have seen get
them, never knew or heard of one be-
ing hurt or injured thereby, beyond a
soreness caused by their efforts to avoid
them.-American Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
CASE OF PREMATURE BURIAL
A Singular Occurrence Which Took Place
in Paris-Horrible Affair.

in Paris-Horrible Affair.
Another case of premature burial
worthy of being analyzed in the realistic
manner Of lola has occurred in France
An elderly woman who lived at an Old
World place called st. Ouen La Rouerie
recently fell i'll and, as her friends
thought. died. The funeral took place,
and as the gravedigger was preparing to
lower the coffin into the earth he heard
means Issuing from inside the lugubri-
Gus four boards 'inclosing the presumed
corpse.
Then followed a scene which was an
exact counterpart of what occurred about
twelve months ago in another rural part
of France. The gravedigger, half fright
ened of the probable ghost which his
imagination conjured up and partly awed
by the requirements enacted by the law
in circumstances such as those in which
he found himself placed, left the coffin in
the care of the mourners and went off
with his somber story to NJ. lie Maire.
That rural dignitary, having duly donned
his scarf of Office and summoned the vii
lage doctor, proceeded to the local 'sGod s
acre." The coffin was opened and it
was discovered that the woman had Just
died from fright, having awakened from
a trance to find herself hemmed in be-
tween the terrible deal planks.
When horrible scenes like this are re-
peated it is time for the authorities and
the public at large to take into considera-
ton the invention of the ingenious un-
dertaker who has adopted as his motto,
''No more premature burials." This
practical person offers to supply in all
cases of doubtful death an apparatus by
means of which those who may have had
the misfortune to be buried alive may
not only inhale fresh air on their awak-
ening, but also communicate by signal
with the world which has left them for
dead.-Iondon Telegraph.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

Some days ago a number of sportsmen
went across the lake on hunting and
fishing excursion. The party was COM
posed of well known engraver, one of
the artists employed on popular maga-
zine, printer, p young literary man,
and Others of lesser note. The pro-
gramme, as laid down on the start, was,
that deer, bear, elk and other game
should he shot by the hunters, sketched
and engraved by the artist and engraver,
and that full account Of the tip should
be written by the literary man, set up by
the printer, published after the party
came back, and sold in monthly num-
bers, forty-eight in set, at twenty-five
cents each. The nimrods took anlmuni-
ton enough with them to kill all the
game from New Brunswick to Manitoba.
After week of tramping they succeeded
in bagging a hedgehog and crow, and
in capturing two bass, 80 great many of
which would weigh pound" 1t is un-
necessary to add that the apparatus for
sketching, engraving and type setting,
which formed no inconsiderable portion
of the baggage, was not unpacked.
Rochester Post Express,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
Habits of Hermit Crabs.

These crabs are very quarrelsome and
will fight desperately, especially if two
specimens be elected from their habita-
ton and one of the shells removed. At
last the stronger puts the weaker TO fight,
seizes upon the shell and whips into it as
if shot from a spring. The homeless one
tries in vain to pull him out, for at each
attempt he only retreats farther and
farther into the shell, pressing his legs
firmly against it and blocking up the en-
trance with his fighting claw, which is
always very much larger than its fellow.
In consequence of this combative nature
the crab is sometimes called by the name
of ''sOldier." F"
Sometimes / have caused much amuse-
ment by removing hermit crab from its
habitation and supplying it with shell
about two sizes too small for the accom-
mediation of its body. No other protec-
ton being obtainable, the crab picks up
the shell, twists it round and round with
marvellous dexterity and Quickness, meas
ures its capacity with its legs, and at last
makes the best of bad business by fore
ing the tip Of its body into it as far as
can be done and then walks about discon-
solately, knowing that the greater part of
its soft person is unprotected. When it
has had time to become thoroughly un-
comfortable large shell should be placed
in the vessel. In a moment the crab
pounces on it, twists it about and with a
movement. almost too quick for the eye
to follow drops the little shell and jerks
itself into the large one. where it rests
with an air OF absolute content which is
intensely ludicrous. s.-Longman's lIaga-
ziDn
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
AN ACTORS LOVE LETTERS.
And Other Matters for the Hopper of the
Secondhand Paper Stock Dealer.

And Other Matters for the Hopper of the
Secondhand Paper Stock Dealer.
''Love letters? oh, yes, we come across
them quite often in our stock; but we
have no time to read 'em. You see
business, not sentiment, is my motto, ~
said down town dealer in paper stock.
''When people are leaving house they
have lived in good many years they
don't care to be bothered with old papers,
and they just sell them to us at so much
a pound, whether it is love letters, or
magazines, or whatever it may be.
Il did have rather a notable experience
with a love letter once, though. / was
sorting over bundle which had Just ar
rived from a house up town-for we
always sort over in case there should
happen to be anything valuabIe-when a
monogram on q letter met my eye, |
knew that monogram. and | thought
that perhaps it might be something that
ought to be sent back. l glanced at the
letter, and then ] saw what it was. 1t
was from lady belonging to one of our
first families, SO called, to a well known
actor, who made a furor in New York
quite number of years ago. The actor
iAaNNA pOopFNu al IlOuSO dNlAtt, anu
didn't seem to have thought the letters
worth taking with him, or perhaps he
forgot them. At any rate they came
down here in that bundle, an ocean of
them, and some of them had not even
been opened, which shows how little
actors think of that kind of correspond
ence. The whole lot went for paper
stock. No, didn't keep one. 1t would
not have been business like.
''And we have old checks and old tele-
grams by the ton. All business houses
get rid of them as old paper after keep
ing them for a certain length of time,
and sometimes the price of the waste pa
per is all they get cut of good many Of
the checks. 1t all comes into the hopper
at from cent to a cent and quarter n
pound, for paper stock just now is very
low; it has never been lower.
"Those album covers? They come to us
at a price little above waste paper, and
sometimes we get quite a good figure for
them. You see, the wholesale houses that
deal in albums send out only the covers
as specimens, and when a cover is out of
date it comes into the second hand deal
er's hopper.
Sat the new directory season we reap
quite a crop of the last years directories,
all as waste paper, and sell them for 81
apiece, a good many would just as soon
have them as the new ones.
'But aldermen and other politicians
are among our best customers in old, or
rather second hand books. May seem
queer, but it's fact. They get heaps of
books from Washington, besides state
and city documents, and they just put
them to one side until the heap gets in
convenient, and then they pack them OF
to the paper stock dealer. In many in
stances such books have not been even
taken out of the packages, But it's all
the same TO us. We pay cent and a
quarter for them. New York Sun,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

About mile from Lands End passed
through the little village of SennenA which
boasts an inn with an extraDi binary
double name. On one side OF tha swing
ing sign are the words, .;The Last Inn in
England" and on the other side, ssThe
First Inn in England" My driver, OBJ.
serving my interest in these announce
ments, touched his hat and said: "There's
two more Firsts and Lasts just ahead,
sir.
Sure enough, in five minutes we came
up to another one of them, more gener-
ally known as the Lands End Hotel, "
to distinguish 1t from No. /. Here de-
cided to stop, as the road beyond seemed
too rough for carriage. On the top of
a cliff, which is the actual end of Corn
wall, another but smaller building stood
out sharply against the SKY. On the side
facing me are painted words too small to
be read in the distance. I borrowed a
tt,o,iiccscnne from sailor who was studiously
scanning the horizon, and then made out
the inscription -"First and Last, Cor.
New York journal Of Commerce.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
New Anchor for Steamers.

Experiments have been made during
the week in the harbor of Havre and on
the Seine with new cable anchor, which
will bring to a standstill the largest
steamer going at the greatest speed
within space Of ten feet. Large steamers
were subjected to the experiment, which
in all cases proved successful, and the
government commission present recon-
mended the new anchor for use on
government ships. This new anchor is
described as a huge cloth parachute,
anchor shaped, attached TO the ship by
cables, with a huge iron weight in the
middle. This balloon shaped anchor re-
sists the onward movement of ships with
tremendous power, assuming very much
the singular balloon or bucket shape of
''old maid founders ON the New Eng.
land coast, which, by SO doing when
hooked, generally succeed in breaking
the line,-Chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
Nellie Grants Little DAUGHTER.

Nellie Grants daughter little Vivian
Sartoris, is beautiful child. Playing OF
the beach at Long Branch with her maid
the other day, she was a picture of at
tractive childhood, delicate, quick and
intelligently American. rather than ro-
bustly English. She is not in the least
like her father, but inherits her mothor's
eyes, brunette complexion and shspely
hands, with hint of Gen. Grant about
tho forehead and rather prominent ears.
Mrs. Sartoris dresses her with great taste,
and the child is an unaffected, happy
creature. A lady with two children a
little younger than Vivian, chubby Great
ures both, passed near the child and said
something to her little people which eyi-
IDENTIFY interested them very much. The
tots looked at each other a minute, then
ran up To Gen. Grant, granddaughter
and emptied the treasured stones and
shells they had picked up in their walk
into a dainty straw basket that she car
ried. They trotted away again without
saying "A word.-New YORK Mail and
EXPRESS
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
FIRE WILL NOT BURN II.
A Valuable Invention which Prevent
Lace Curtains from Taking Fire.

A Valuable Invention which Prevents
Lace Curtains from Taking Fire.
'Look out, that curtain will surely
take fire.
A gas jet was burning in close proxim-
ity to a lace curtain in the rear end of a
down town lace importing store.
''I'm not worried about it, replied
the merchant to a reporter who had
called his attention to the circumstance
''You are not the first man that light has
frightened
"Why don't you turn the light out,
then, or move the curtain?''
Because there is really no danger"
"You are taking great chances
''You wouldn't think so if you knew
what that curtain is made of. 1t is a
new French invention that has been put
on the American market recently and I
am the agent. The lace is dipped in a
solution which makes it incombustible.
Experiments are now being made to de-
termine whether dyed goods can be so
treated. At present only white woolen
and cotton fabrics can be treated in that
way
"What is the preparation"
81 can't tell you exactly, but there
are sulphate of ammonia, carbonate
of ammonia, boracic acid, borax and
starch in it. The goods are dipped
in this while it is boiling hot and become
thoroughly impregnated with it, Then
they are dried and ironed as ordinary
starched fabrics.'
GA great invention, truly"
''Indeed it is. And if it can be used
on all goods there is no telling how many
fires may be, avoided. If all curtains,
carpets, bedclothes and garments were
incombustible many lives would be
saved"
''Do you think it will ever be per-
fected?''
81 cam t say; but do know that paper
can be treated that way, and if dyed
goods can be it VIII not be long before
they are, for no money is being spared
in making the experiments. New York
Mail and Express.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27

At last the game butchers of the great
west have stopped killing buffalo, The
buffalo are all dead! The time has now
arrived for the territories to enact strin-
gent laws against the killing of these an
imals, and 1 am pleased to see that the
Montana legislature has just rushed
through bill to that effect only ten
years behind its tin1eI Next year, when
the last buffalo of the eighty head still
alive in the Panhandle of Texas is hunted
down and killed, it will be time for the
Lone Star state TO frame bill for his
protection; bu5 its final passage can
hardly be expected until 1897.
While the terr.G0rIes aIcc nslsslng laws
against the killing of buffalo, they ought
also, by all means, TO make the killing
Of mastodons between Aug. Is and Dec.
i, punishable by fine or imprisonment.
They should also pass laws against the
shipping Of mastodon carcasses out Of
their respective territorial imits.-The
Cosmopolitan.
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Novel Tour by Five Artists.

have heard often of artists who made
sketching tour in some old craft, hired
for the purpose, and navigated along the
coast of Maine or to the provinces: but
until recently never knew of railroad
car being employed for a similar purpose.
A young artist whom 1 met at the club
told me that he and four or five others
had leased an old passenger car from one
of the local railways. They paid very
little for it and at small cost they have
fitted it for a journey. One end is pro-
vided with sleeping berths, and the rest
of the car is a Giving dining and cook
ing room. They have laid in stock of
provisions, and are to be attended by
man servant, who will cook and keep
house generally. The car will be hauled
by local freight trains chiefly, and the
party will stop wherever the fancy strikes
them. Of course this movable house can
be side tracked and left at any point as
long as the inmates desire, SO that they
will be able to make excursions from it,
being away over night if they so please,
and leaving the servant in charge.
Boston Post